Post-Association fruitage

Just a follow-up on the woman in the fruitage, which you recently posted. She is doing GREAT! She is driving the sisters around town who claimed her feeble; once again serving as an usher at church; and truly claiming the joy of life realized of God!

The “clouds of sense” truly have rolled back to show a form so divinely fair! What a sight to behold.

Her sisters (one who is a Scientist but doesn’t attend church) and another who is not, have even asked for help! The one had a home to sell that had not had one nibble in two years. Working from an expanded sense of home…a call came full of joy stating that an offer had been made which they were going to accept! Credit by both sisters has been given to Science for these demonstrations. How good is our God?!!

I got a new email in the middle of the night from a person who had a problem with an infected growth on her gums. She was worried that she might have to go to the ER, but she wanted to know first, would I treat her?

I originally thought, maybe I shouldn’t take the case. I still have a two-year old to tend to three or four days a week and my business to run…

When problems would arise in the past, my first instinct was to call a practitioner, but this year I found spiritual growth brought me to trust God as a tangible presence in my experience (not just the practitioner’s!) and that I could and should pray more diligently for myself, so I did. And it was liberating and I saw healing!

I feel more confident in the practice since reading the compilation of testimonies. If Science and Health and the Bible are our Pastor, then the Bound Volumes are our law books. They show us, case after case, precedent after precedent, the way things really work, the healing power of the Christ.

For example, four weeks ago I got a call from a dear friend who had just found out that her 21-year-old daughter had been stabbed multiple times. My friend was on vacation in Florida, her daughter was in college in California. It was the middle of the night in Santa Barbara and the daughter was about to undergo emergency surgery to stop the internal bleeding and try to stabilize her blood pressure.

About six weeks after I started serving as a First Reader and two weeks after I started a new job, I noticed a lump on my breast and discoloration. I called a practitioner immediately.

Interestingly, and wonderfully, I was pretty calm; was not at all tempted by medicine. I was convinced the claim was not indicating some big personal character change needed but an attack related to the readership, which I love. Without saying anything about a problem, I asked our branch church executive board to make sure that someone was praying regularly for the platform. No one had been in any systematic way, so this changed.

Thank you so much for our “assignment and gift.” It was a source of great peace during the holidays, when it is so easy to forget what the holidays are actually about. I’ve read it through twice and love having it to dip into. Often I read just one testimony, either before or after studying the Lesson-Sermon in the morning.

I was windsurfing in Hawaii, enjoying some fierce winds. During a jibe, I was extending my leg toward the board when the board unexpectedly snapped off a wave. I felt a sharp pain in my knee. It appeared that the impact had bent the knee backward. I got to shore and made it to the house, where I found that putting any weight on the knee caused intense pain. The joint swelled up and I could not walk without crutches.

I am still very grateful for the collection of powerful healings and the inspiration they offer. As with Mary Baker Eddy, Christian Healer, we saw over and over that material sense testimony (even the most extreme, dire cases) was proven utterly unreal. Matter—with its organs, bones, or systems of the body that seemed to be destroyed by injuries or disease—just didn’t turn out to be substantial; laws that seemed to be reliable were not laws at all, since the power of God, Truth reversed them—dramatically!!

Since class instruction in September, I have had numerous demonstrations in Christian Science, one being a healing of my mother’s tooth. The tooth did not seem to be secure and felt like it might fall apart. My mother was having difficulty eating because of it and seemed to be in pain.

My husband and I are traveling in the Southwest. For the last couple of days we were in Zion National Park. As I was happily clambering over some rocks on a hike to an overview in Zion, I was reminded of a wonderful healing I had very early on in my study of Christian Science.

My son sent me a spreadsheet document on Word software. Amazingly, it had the effect of exploding my own Word software so that none of my Word documents were available, i.e., all of the research I had ever done was unavailable to me. I knew this was a.m.

About four months ago, my tennis partner said, “I know you don’t want to hear this, but you really need to do something about that growth on your face. I have been noticing it for some time, and it looks like it is getting worse. I have friends who have had skin cancer removed from their face and bodies. I know you are a Christian Scientist, but I really think you need to have it checked out.”

One especially frigid winter, I got a middle-of-the night call from a tenant saying how cold they were. Two boilers heat the apartments. They will not fire up until a fan goes on to bring in outside air for combustion. If the fan does not go on, the boilers will not go on, either.

I was a commercial fisherman some years ago when I experienced an accident that led to a Christian Science healing.

I was tying a line around a wooden pole to secure the stern of the boat as we were preparing to dock. As I was passing the rope behind the pole, the boat smashed into the pole, pinning my hand between the pole and the metal bulkhead behind it. Immediately my hand began to swell up and turn black and blue.

When I received the surprise package “To bear testimony to Truth,” I was truly glad to receive it, yet felt unworthy to read it.

For two to three months before that, I had been bothered by tendonitis around the knee. Sometimes while walking, I would suddenly feel my leg buckling under me, and there were times I would wake up in the middle of the night in pain. Each time the symptoms flared up, I would pray to see the unreality of this picture. The symptoms would abate to the point that I could get on with life, but then the cycle would repeat.

The last word … boils down to Truth! When a situation looks to be unsolvable and you don’t know the way to turn, if you feel unworthy or are in a situation because you made a mistake, what can you do but turn to the dear Father for an answer?

That was just how it was for me. I felt like the Roman Catholic girl who said, “I have nothing left but Christ” (S&H 238:10). But “If God be for us, who can be against us?” (Rom. 8:31)

I am writing this to you a little later than planned seeing as how it’s Wednesday evening and I have had a complete physical healing Monday evening.

I had been experiencing a crippling of my feet. So much so that walking was excruciating and no amount of time off my feet mattered. It was to the point where I was planning on looking for another job as I am on my feet all day on both hard and uneven surfaces, exacerbating the problem - or so I thought.

Before going to bed a few nights ago, even though it was already late, I decided to visit the Association website. There I found the wonderful sharing you recently posted and felt I must get the experience I told you about on paper so it could be shared, too.

After Association on the way home my wife got a call from a track coach at my 15 year old’s school. We knew that he was supposed to run in a big track meet that day, but this kind of special call in past usually meant something was wrong, so we were concerned. It turned out he had been throwing around some kind of hard ball with his friends while waiting for their specific event, and the ball had hit him squarely in the eye. His eye was bleeding, and there had been much swelling.